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lucasadam87

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Worlds Fair Shovel
« on: January 10, 2012, 06:30:11 pm »
Greetings,

My grandmother moved into a home about 50 years ago near Forest Park in St.Louis and she found this shovel in the basement. What is the history of this shovel? Is it from the 1904 worlds fair? How much is it worth?

Thank you in advance.



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fancypants

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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2012, 07:11:37 pm »
I'd give a guess that it's more current than the 1904 date you've mentioned .

Found one "Worldsfair shovel" for sale in St.Louis , on Dec 13 , 2011 for $30 , 'listed' as a 1950's shovel .
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lucasadam87

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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2012, 07:27:31 pm »
Could you tell me from where you found it for sale? My grandma thinks its from the 50's and I have my doubts, I'm wondering if that listing you found was her trying to sell it.
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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2012, 10:25:14 am »
I would think most of those were made for the workers at the worlds fair rather than any kind of souvenier item !!
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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2012, 01:32:24 pm »
That looks like a coal shovel to me. I would wonder if there wasn't a "Worlds Fair" brand coal that provided a shovel with a big order?
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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2012, 07:54:12 pm »
I'd go along with the brand-name/modle-name 'Worldsfair' , rather than an actual item from the "Worlds' Fair" , if you get my drift .
I wouldn't loose any sleep about a huge 'antique' value concerning this item ..... but it could be still put to use as a practical scoop/shovel (if it's strong enough) .

If you've really got your heart set on keeping it , I suppose a person could clean it up a bit & hang it on the wall somewhere .

I found the shovel ad on the 'St. Louis' craigslist ... the actual ad had been removed by the seller ( meaning perhaps it sold &/or did not) , lucasadam87 .
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lucasadam87

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Re: Worlds Fair Shovel
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 02:19:44 am »
I know you some of you guys doubt that this is an antique, but being from the "Show Me" state I did a little digging( No Pun intended)

This is what I found
First I Googled Worlds Fair tools, and I couldn't find a brand named that
next I searched for
Worlds Fair Coal and ended up finding this
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/fair/fair-mine.html

I don't want to be one of those guys who insist something is an antique when it clearly is not but I'm just trying to be sure.

Soo now I'm thinking that it was a year older then I thought before ;D and used to move coal before the fair.

Is this plausible?
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